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I love that y'all use that as an insult. It only carries any weight in your own echo chamber, you know that right? No where else on the planet (be it a forum or a physical space) does that mean anything. Well, maybe within north korea
If "on the planet" you mean primarily the U.S and secondarily the rest of the "west" while excluding the majority of humanity on the planet, then sure.
You're so brainwashed and conditioned into believing you have more in common with some ghoul billionaire that values your life insofar as much as they can extract wealth out of you than your own fellow worker.
Obligatory comment that brainwashing is a myth rooted in orientalism and later pseudoscience, propagated by the US in order to make excuses for US soldiers defecting during the Korean War (et al).
I mean everywhere that isn't China or Russia or one of their satellites/annexes yeah.
Not sure where you got the billionaire thing, I've never defended them, in word or action. (Living in a capitalist country and needing a job for resources doesn't make me a billionaire apologist)
Liberalism and billionaire worship are not the same thing, same as communism and xi are not the same thing.
To be clear: just because xi figuratively leads a communist country doesn't mean this policy is perfectly communist.
Same thing goes for billionaires existing in a liberal society.
Lastly, the existence of either doesn't invalidate the tenets of either ideology
None of that makes any sense
Xi is no different than any other billionaire shit head most of the communist party top leaders use there position to gain control over the state controlled businesses
The cia literally called him redder than red and unable to be corrupted by money lmao
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html
This is incoherent. Xi has administrative control (or influence) over state enterprises, but he isn't getting profits or stock options from them, so there are no grounds for calling him a billionaire
This is like saying you became a police commissioner to gain control over local police cars. Yeah, an explicit part of your job is that you can direct them, but the claim is so tautological that it looks like you are saying something else. It's not like Xi will retain control of these enterprises after he leaves office.
Xi first started geting so much hate from the west because he actually started purging communist party members for being too involved in the private sector. If he was encouraging the bourgeoisification of the CPC he would be hailed by the west.
Tell me you know nothing about the PRC without saying you know nothing about the PRC
Sure dude xi is such a great leader real humanitarian bro I've read more about that scumbag than you will ever know
I'm sure you've read plenty of propaganda
Your right no propaganda in china from the state controlled no independent media allowed
You think corporate controled media is better?
We can agree on that
Of course you agree on something that's bullshit about an AES
Nice whataboutism you centrist liberal tankie!!!
That must be why you felt the need to respond to it.
This is a message board, where we reply to each other.
By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.
This is a message board, where we reply to each other.
By your approach: why did you feel the need to defend him? See? Silly.
This is a massage board where we reply to each other see silly Billy 😜
My pronouns are right next to my username, and you still can't get them right. Real fucking classy.
I literally can't see them in voyager
Didn't know that, but my username has girl right in it, so still no excuse to assume I'm male.
A handle does not imply gender, I've been around since early IRC and it's never been true.
I referred to you as "y'all" when I replied directly. When I replied later I didn't even look at your name again, or remember who you were. I replied to "shimmering koi". Is that a fish person? Obviously not.
I fucking hate tankies but I have zero issue with any gender, pronoun, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc. If I ever had to talk to you again, I'd be fine to refer to you as whatever you want. But I wouldn't remember you because this is a anonymous social media platform and identify is meaningless.
I forgot to block you in the first place lol
I am pretty sure "classist" is seen as a valid insult even among radlibs, and many other people believe in equivalent terms ("elitist" is not too far off)
Referring to "lib"
That's even sillier, since American parlance is definitely not universal and in most countries the colloquial meaning of "liberal" is essentially that of a market-loving centrist
Also, obviously, real-world American leftists use it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA
Again, to millions and millions a "market loving centrist" is not an insult
You say "again," but that's a radically different claim from "this is an insult nowhere in the real world". Even in neoliberal states it's often an insult!
And to billions more it is, so going by consensus...